“So you plant your own garden and
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
— Jorge Luis Borges (via Swanfeather Songs)
(Source: quote-book)
lately-
i do not feel
as though
my name is safe
in the mouths
i once
trusted
with it.and i do not know
how to ask for it back.- Farah Gabdon
“I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
“‘My life is nothing but room for you,’ I said. ‘It could never be filled by anyone but you.’”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (via stellablu)
(Source: larmoyante)
“People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.”
— Ali ibn Abi Talib (via memonite)
I was born
outside of
my mother’s
country,
and for that
I will always
remain
a foreigner.
“I want to write a novel about Silence,” he said; “the things people don’t say.”
— Virginia Woolf (via ahundredwordsforsnow)
(Source: kitty-en-classe)
“The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.”
— bell hooks, all about love: new visions (via ellesugars)
“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.”
— John Keats (February 27, 1818)
(Source: itineran-t)
“في بحر من البشر، عيني ستبحث عنك دائما”
— In the sea of people, my eyes will always search for you. (via yurize)
November 04, 2012
And I pray that it isn’t too much to ask for.
“I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.”
— George Harrison (via petrichour)
(Source: andthebandbeginstoplay)
